Courtesy Story | U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence | 04.03.2023
On 2 April 1865, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, the commanding general of the Union’s armies, learned that Gen. Robert E. Lee, commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, had decided to evacuate the lines around Petersburg. This intelligence, delivered by Scout Judson Knight, prompted Grant to push his forces forward to pursue Lee’s army and to capture Richmond, the Confederate capital....
